Snaith, who won this race in 2008 with Dancer’s Daughter, masked the obvious underlying tension recently, telling the racing media that the Gold Challenge was set to be one of the ‘biggest races we have seen in a long time’
“Come on Justin – they can’t both be champions!” says SA horseracing’s very own Larry King, James Goodman, as he interrogates the South African champion trainer in the countdown to Saturday
Futura and Legislate will meet for the first time since the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge at Greyville
Snaith’s second gripe was that as a stallion who had been anticipating a race, it had been a poor decision to lead Legislate back to the parade ring on the same way around the circuit as the race and hence past the main grandstand
The Snaith’s Johannesburg satellite yard, consisting of 26 boxes at Turffontein, will open on May 1 and the yard have made a shortlist of applicants to run it
While dreams, omens and lucky numbers will no doubt still play a part for many casual observers when selecting a likely winner of Saturday’s R2,5 million Gr1 J&B Met, under the modern conditions of the race, we are looking at what is practically a weight-for-age scenario.
The best interests of the very valuable son of Dynasty will always come first and if there are any changes for the worst he will not run in Saturday’s Gr1 J&B Met
Great races are hardly defined by field size. The initial reaction to the nine horse field for Saturday’s R1 million Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate obviously failed to understand the genuine depth of quality and competitive needle that lurks beneath the elegant blanket of white and blue
With fitness overshadowing any obvious deductions in the R400 000 Gr2 Green Point Stakes, it is perhaps worth noting that each winner over the past five
There’s a fine balance between producing horses for the sales ring or for the racecourse. However, first and foremost for us is that our horses have got to be able to run.
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
